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Covid 19 Part XXXV-956,720 ROI (5,952 deaths) 452,946 NI (3,002 deaths) (08/01) Read OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    Looks like a few dodge weeks into august but after that all guns blazing! Vaccines will win



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,443 ✭✭✭brickster69


    There are no direct flights from Reunion to the UK so no idea how they would enter unless they took a long boat ride. To get an idea what is happening in France it is hard to include a small island off the coast of South Africa to say what is really going on without the massive lack of testing data.

    Here is the data from 8.6.2021

    Reunion 65 samples 81% Beta

    Ile-de-France ( Paris area ) 125 Samples 10.9 % Beta

    Centre Val De Loire ( Central France ) 28 Samples 12.5 % Beta

    Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ( Central France ) 20 Samples 11.1% Beta

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    "if you get on the wrong train, get off at the nearest station, the longer it takes you to get off, the more expensive the return trip will be."



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,445 ✭✭✭Cork2021


    Lads and lassies this man is the absolute zealot!!! Scally needs to fûck off! Absolutely sick shît Ofnour media giving these cûnts a pedestal to stand on!!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 805 ✭✭✭Relax brah


    this was fairly bang on, haven’t sleep well at all this evening. Got an incredible chill was freezing lying in bed to extent that i had to put on the heat

    slept for an hour and now back awake with the same. Very strange experience



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Hope you get better soon.


    Numbers are looking crazy again. I don't want another lockdown but it seems like it's all our government do



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Saying they will is disingenuous but most scientists/epidemiologists think that this may happen or could happen however small the chance. Is your point about scally or that it's an untruth?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    Ok... deep breath...I can see the following post being contentious but I believe in informed debate and hearing all sides.

    It seems that the *AFD have lodged the legal court papers for an injunction against the US secetary for health etc.

    whistleblower in house re collating numbers stating 45,000 deaths in the 3 days immediately post vaccination.... on top of a 100s of thousands adverse reactions from minor to disabled for life...they are not anti vaccination but want the court to place caveats on their use eg children U18 those with autoimmune issues and potential ovarys/fertility issues those with a previous covid infection amongst other things.

    A huge amount to read and question and discuss in it..I find interesting the section on cohersive mandatory vaccination techniques versus informed consent.

    or

    https://www.scribd.com/document/516493624/Motion-for-Preliminary-Injunction-File-Stamped


    Anyhow for everyones perusal on all sides of all the different issues raised...Iam off to sleep now but hopefully will have some good news re natural immunity to post later.

    Good morning may the sunshine bright and it rain at night😊

    *apologies put the wrong abbreviation of group name in now corrected.

    Post edited by speckle on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    forgot to say correalation does not neccessarily equate causation but sometimes it does and sometimes the truth is inbetween somewhere.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    It's not contentious in most of the world and the consensus is to wait for a lot more data. Only two countries are proceeding with the under 16s anyway.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,566 ✭✭✭Wolf359f


    Is this the same crazy white coat doctors again? Not like America isn't known for frivolous lawsuits.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,042 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I didn't read the 65 pages of bs, but a brief skim suggests that is the right choice.

    "...substantiated by [someone anonymous], and also by other independent data points considered as part of Plaintiff's due diligence..." - though they don't, of course, elaborate on these.

    I'm not denying there is some possibility of underreporting, but that document seems a waste of ink (in the sense of being informative; it is possible a suit would be successful, because the law is an ass, as they say).



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭speckle


    No Wolf..not frivolous read it first and the research papers quoted within before dimissing out of hand...goodnight.

    Is that so....kids only one issue but a precious part none the less in the court papers...nite...definetly the leaba now.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,469 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd


    There's informed debate and hearing all sides, then there's this..... the same crew that have been pushing an unapproved drug for treatment of covid



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,042 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    "read this 65 page piece of crap and the papers it quotes"

    Eh, no. Have you read the 65 pages and the papers it quotes before presenting it?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Sofa King Great



    I see that after months of sh!tting all over antigen testing they are now saying they will be offering antigen tests to close contacts.


    More confused mixed messaging from the powers that be!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,042 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    https://twitter.com/peterjukes/status/1417228341598375940

    'The "median age" for those dying was between 81 and 82 for men and 85 for women, the prime minister allegedly wrote, adding: "That is above life expectancy. So get Covid and Live longer."'

    Another remedial turnip with this old chestnut.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Only if we reach a particular level a day. You're also assuming that what NPHET say is what the HSE do. It's their decision and was mentioned at the briefing last week.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 872 ✭✭✭Sofa King Great


    It doesn't make the message any less muddled



  • Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    A causal reading of the court papers lodged indicates it is a summary of the most nonsensical anti-vac conspiracies out there.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy


    All those deaths must be unique to the US then.. over 5 million vaccines done here and nobody died from them.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so



    Well, the situation on antigen testing is as follows. NPHET will never recommend them and you shouldn't conflate their utter intransigence on this with the actions of the rest of government. Donnelly put together a task force under Ferguson to review them earlier in the year and a more recent one to determine where they can be used. This is the outcome and one the HSE will apply. That's a pretty clear message.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,750 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    so antigen tests are snake oil according to nphet but hse will use them anyway, sounds like mixed messaging to me

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    To some members of NPHET yes, they say they are not up to the gold standard of PCR so refuse to recommend them. This is a known position, the only new thing here is the plan to include them in certain circumstances. HSE will not just use them willy nilly, only where there is massive community spread and then only to close contacts. This will happen if case numbers get too high to contact trace effectively. PCR will still be needed for positive antigen tests.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,150 ✭✭✭dougm1970


    sorry if this has been answered....there seems to have been no official figures in this country for deaths since the cyber attack ...is that right ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,065 ✭✭✭funnydoggy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,469 ✭✭✭✭stephenjmcd




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,202 ✭✭✭✭hmmm


    Been doing some reading of opinion pieces by various scientists, and the most likely emerging scenario appears to be:

    1. Herd immunity won't be possible. It was once potentially possible, but Delta has ended that hope.
    2. Covid will be endemic, continuously circulating at low levels. We'll all get Covid, probably several times over the rest of our lives.
    3. For newborn children, this will become another cold-causing virus and they will probably not need a vaccination as they will encounter the virus when young. Older children may benefit from it.
    4. Vaccinated people will in general get mild illness. They may need occasional boosters, or catching the virus itself will "top them up".
    5. People with poor immune systems will need extra protection. Healthcare workers, people in nursing homes etc. will need more frequent boosters to reduce their risk to immune-compromised patients. I don't think there will be much tolerance for unvaccinated staff in these areas.
    6. In general there will be more emphasis on respiratory illness just across society, so voluntary mask-wearing by many, people working with (apparently) mind illness, e.g. headcolds, will be discouraged.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    In terms of it being endemic, one of the other general opinions in terms of mutations is that if a strain evolves that is completely vaccine-resistant, it will also be completely inert. This is because the vaccines (the mRNA ones at least) are based on the spike protein of the virus. In order to be completely vaccine-resistant, the virus would need to develop an entirely new spike protein. This, consequently, would also make the virus incapable of binding to the target receptors on human cells, and thus harmless.

    If the new spike protein by chance binds to some other receptor, then it is by definition an entirely different virus.

    While it is incorrect to say that viruses never become more lethal when they mutate, they don't tend to. Evolution tends to favour pathogens which transmit easily but do not kill or incapacitate the host. Things like Ebola or Plague spread rapidly and effectively in dense communities, but make themselves known quickly and then burn out very quickly when the sick are isolated.

    The most likely evolutionary path for covid is one where symptoms are relatively mild and infectiousness is high, as this ensures the widest distribution of the strain.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,409 ✭✭✭Allinall


    Just heard on Newstalk that the hospital number today is 89. Down 12.

    20 in ICU- no change.

    Looks very steady, given the level of cases being reported.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,339 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    It's interesting looking at how that particular tidbit of information is being covered, depending on where you read it.

    According to The Guardian the "get Covid and live longer" remark is indicitive of BoJo's callous disregard for human life and his unsuitability to be PM.

    According to The Telegraph it was just a joke and Boris is a good egg really.



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